Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Happy Birthday Mason



Today our oldest "baby" turned 15.  It is simply amazing how time flies ... many people told us it would, but until you actually live it, it's a hard concept to grasp.  We are very proud of the young man he is growing in to & hope he thoroughly enjoys hunting with the bow!!



Sunday, December 25, 2011

O Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas from our family!!! We spent the day at Stan's parents with his Mom & Dad, Sisters and their families.  The kids sang a couple Christmas carols and Nicole played "O Christmas Tree." It was a wonderful day eating lunch and then Happy Birthday was sung to Jesus before opening presents.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Favorite Passtime

Dane can often be found just like this.  He truly has all the plays memorized as Mason can attest to :-)

Today he enjoyed playing with Dylan while we hung out at Gramma Barb's house to see Uncle Craig and meet Tammy & Krista while they are in town from Austin for Christmas.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Snow Fun

After about 5 or 6 inches of snow, the kids had a good time playing in the snow today.  And almost 2 weeks off from work .... my biggest accomplishment is going to be The Hunger Games Trilogy (so far so good)





Monday, December 19, 2011

Gingerbread House

Dane & Abby worked on this at Gramma's house with Kaci & Ansley today while I was at work.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

An Unforgettable Week of Basketball

Friday we traveled to Ness City to watch Mason's game.  And best of all my best friend forever lives there so we were also able to spend some time with Terri & her family.



After the games at Ness were over .... the bus had broke down, they borrowed a bus from Ness only to find out it's tail lights didn't work so they had to swicth busses again.  Mason finally got home at 1:30 am.  And when he wakes me up to let me know he's home ... he says "and someone grabbed my bag off the bus" so he doesn't have his uniform, shoes, brace, or anything for the tournament they are to play at Norton the next day.



The bag was found AFTER I had made multiple phone calls and had all the Ness City busses checked .... had Terri ready to meet me in WaKeeney.  BUT the boys were leaving at 8:30 and I had finally resorted to the fact that I was going to stay home and clean the house.  THEN Mason calls and says his bag is in Monument.  I take off to go pick up his bag, pick Stan up in town, drop Dane off at Mom's and we take off for Norton.  Thankfully, there were no law enforcement officers patrolling between here and there.  We made it in good time and Mason was dressed and ready to warm up 41 seconds before the game before theres ended.  The boys ended up placing 3rd!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Family Pictures

I am finally getting our family pictures on here to share! A big thanks to Michele Hockersmith for another group of amazing pictures.